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Originally Posted by qzrrbz
I don't think this necessarily follows. This doesn't rule out either environmental dependencies or data dependencies.
Take the assertion that the field was tested as a given, but tested when and how? If at o'dark30, then the sea of wifi enabled phones in the audience weren't there. The testing environment is not nominally equivalent to that seen during finals, and I have no idea how it could possibly be made so.
The data requirements were probably not as seen in finals, but this, I'll grant, is "in the robots" -- but it's possibly *not* their fault.
This is a hard problem, no doubt about it. Intermittent and barely reproducible -- a troubleshooter's worst nightmare!
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To some extent the spread spectrum nature of the radios and the fact that many phones are not 5GHz should have eliminated a lot of that.
This is not to say that there can't be an impact from 2.4GHz traffic, it's not entirely clear to me that my definition of disabled equals what FIRST considers disabled when they discuss the 2.4GHz portion of the D-Link AP radio.
Then again, I appreciate that perhaps the robot traffic simply was too much, under the cirumstances I can see that happening.